Safeguards & Security

GEM has more than 20 years of progressively responsible experience at various Federal government Agencies providing expert safeguards and security services. Our professional experts have extensive experience in all disciplines of safeguards and security and provide security support to our flagship customers – the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), and the Department of Homeland Security and (DHS). GEM also provided support for many commercial customers that manage multiple DOE nuclear facilities, laboratories, and environmental sites nationwide.

OUR GOALS ARE TO HELP YOU

Maintain the continuity and effectiveness of your site/facility security

Ensure the integrity of safeguards and security at a manageable and realistic cost

Create program architecture that aids adjustment to new technologies, staffing requirements, security missions and continuous improvement of processes

GEM has contributed to the development and implementation of national, state, and local security policy for physical protection of

Nuclear weapons

Weapon components

Special Nuclear Materials

Classified and sensitive information

Declassification

Civil aviation facilities/assets

Petroleum reserve facilities

On our security policy, planning, and implementation tasks, we have worked closely with representatives from Federal agencies, State and local law enforcement, management and operations contractors, commercial entities, and foreign national representatives.

GEM conducts vulnerability analyses and risk assessments to determine the effectiveness of all elements of safeguards and security, such as:

Protective forces

Program management

Physical security

Technical security

Personnel security

Information security

Cybersecurity

Material control and accountability

We are a DOE-wide recognized source that is highly respected for the conduct of oversight reviews and VA exercises. These reviews and exercises, coupled with our vulnerability analysis capability, generate a comprehensive analysis of protection system compliance and effectiveness.

The protection of classified and sensitive information is vital to our national security. As such, our staff is highly qualified, trained, and experienced in information security and sensitive information policy, procedures, and solutions to concerns.

We develop and conduct surveillance and oversight programs designed to assess the protection of classified information, matter, and parts, as well as sensitive information, and make recommendations for correcting identified shortcomings. These reviews successfully identify the use of engineered technological measures that provide more assurance and permanent cost-effective solutions to information security and sensitive information concerns. They also help ensure that our customers’ information policies and procedures are current, all encompassing, and in place for the protection of classified and sensitive information.

GEM also has the capabilities and experience to provide operations security guidance and support in identifying actual or potential vulnerabilities associated with classified and sensitive unclassified information that could be exploited by adversarial intelligence agencies.

Through conducting vulnerability assessments and oversight reviews (audits, inspections, self-assessments), we have developed extensive experience in the management, strategic planning, and training of protective forces. GEM’s expertise in the protective force discipline includes compliance- and performance-based assessments of management, fitness, training, facilities, and overall protective force effectiveness. Our staff represents over 100 years of experience in assessing the protection of critical assets, such as protective force training, planning, equipment, and response, consistent with post and response plans, vulnerability analyses, performance testing, and site safeguards and security plans.

Protective force response against the theft of special nuclear material and weapons, creation of improvised nuclear devices, potential malevolent acts associated with the disruption of mission critical facilities/assets, and sabotage that could affect the health and safety of the public, work force, and environment

GEM is actively involved in the international safeguards of nuclear materials, participating in preparations for and implementation of international treaties and protocols for nuclear nonproliferation. GEM has provided nuclear safeguards support in many countries worldwide including South Africa, Romania, and other prior eastern block countries under the DOE/NNSA GTRI contract. GEM developed and implemented a training program involving international radioactive material transfer and transport. GEM planned, developed, and implemented the first nuclear safety skill development program for South African regulators, nuclear facility operating personnel, and transport personnel. The training program supported the first US-origin nuclear removal project in South Africa.

GEM IT staff has extensive experience in the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and to the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. GEM’s builds cybersecurity into all of its IT support services projects through compliance with all DOE and Federal guidelines and standards, such as Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), Federal Information Processing and Standards (FIPS), and National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Our services include managing and operating computing centers that require the availability and backup of a diverse set of classified and unclassified computing resources.